Juan 4
Traducción en lenguaje actual
La samaritana y Jesús
4 1-3 Los fariseos se enteraron de que el número de seguidores de Jesús aumentaba cada día más, y de que Jesús bautizaba más que Juan el Bautista. Cuando Jesús se dio cuenta de que los fariseos se habían enterado de eso, salió de la región de Judea y regresó a Galilea. 4 En el viaje, tenía que pasar por Samaria. 5 En esa región llegó a un pueblo llamado Sicar. Cerca de allí había un pozo de agua que hacía mucho tiempo había pertenecido a Jacob.[a] Cuando Jacob murió, el nuevo dueño del terreno donde estaba ese pozo fue su hijo José.
6 Eran como las doce del día, y Jesús estaba cansado del viaje. Por eso se sentó a la orilla del pozo, 7-8 mientras los discípulos iban al pueblo a comprar comida.
En eso, una mujer de Samaria llegó a sacar agua del pozo. Jesús le dijo a la mujer:
—Dame un poco de agua.
9 Como los judíos no se llevaban bien con los de Samaria,[b] la mujer le preguntó:
—¡Pero si usted es judío! ¿Cómo es que me pide agua a mí, que soy samaritana?
10 Jesús le respondió:
—Tú no sabes lo que Dios quiere darte, y tampoco sabes quién soy yo. Si lo supieras, tú me pedirías agua, y yo te daría el agua que da vida.
11 La mujer le dijo:
—Señor, ni siquiera tiene usted con qué sacar agua de este pozo profundo. ¿Cómo va a darme esa agua? 12 Hace mucho tiempo nuestro antepasado Jacob nos dejó este pozo. Él, sus hijos y sus rebaños bebían agua de aquí. ¿Acaso es usted más importante que Jacob?
13 Jesús le contestó:
—Cualquiera que bebe del agua de este pozo vuelve a tener sed, 14 pero el que beba del agua que yo doy nunca más tendrá sed. Porque esa agua es como un manantial del que brota vida eterna.
15 Entonces la mujer le dijo:
—Señor, déme usted de esa agua, para que yo no vuelva a tener sed, ni tenga que venir aquí a sacarla.
16 Jesús le dijo:
—Ve a llamar a tu esposo y regresa aquí con él.
17 —No tengo esposo —respondió la mujer.
Jesús le dijo:
—Es cierto, 18 porque has tenido cinco, y el hombre con el que ahora vives no es tu esposo.
19 Al oír esto, la mujer le dijo:
—Señor, me parece que usted es un profeta. 20 Desde hace mucho tiempo mis antepasados han adorado a Dios en este cerro,[c] pero ustedes los judíos dicen que se debe adorar a Dios en Jerusalén.
21 Jesús le contestó:
—Créeme, mujer, pronto llegará el tiempo cuando, para adorar a Dios, nadie tendrá que venir a este cerro ni ir a Jerusalén. 22 Ustedes los samaritanos no saben a quién adoran. Pero nosotros los judíos sí sabemos a quién adoramos. Porque el salvador saldrá de los judíos. 23-24 Dios es espíritu, y los que lo adoran, para que lo adoren como se debe, tienen que ser guiados por el Espíritu. Se acerca el tiempo en que los que adoran a Dios el Padre lo harán como se debe, guiados por el Espíritu, porque así es como el Padre quiere ser adorado. ¡Y ese tiempo ya ha llegado!
25 La mujer le dijo:
—Yo sé que va a venir el Mesías, a quien también llamamos el Cristo. Cuando él venga, nos explicará todas las cosas.
26 Jesús le dijo:
—Yo soy el Mesías. Yo soy, el que habla contigo.
27 En ese momento llegaron los discípulos de Jesús, y se extrañaron de ver que hablaba con una mujer. Pero ninguno se atrevió a preguntarle qué quería, o de qué conversaba con ella.
28 La mujer dejó su cántaro, se fue al pueblo y le dijo a la gente: 29 «Vengan a ver a un hombre que sabe todo lo que he hecho en la vida. ¡Podría ser el Mesías!»
30 Entonces la gente salió del pueblo y fue a buscar a Jesús.
31 Mientras esto sucedía, los discípulos le rogaban a Jesús:
—Maestro, por favor, come algo.
32 Pero él les dijo:
—Yo tengo una comida que ustedes no conocen.
33 Los discípulos se preguntaban: «¿Será que alguien le trajo comida?» 34 Pero Jesús les dijo:
«Mi comida es obedecer a Dios, y completar el trabajo que él me envió a hacer.
35 »Después de sembrar el trigo, ustedes dicen: “Dentro de cuatro meses recogeremos la cosecha.” Fíjense bien: toda esa gente que viene es como un campo de trigo que ya está listo para la cosecha. 36 Dios premiará a los que trabajan recogiendo toda esta cosecha de gente, pues todos tendrán vida eterna. Así, el que sembró el campo y los que recojan la cosecha se alegrarán juntos. 37 Es cierto lo que dice el refrán: “Uno es el que siembra, y otro el que cosecha.” 38 Yo los envío a cosechar lo que a ustedes no les costó ningún trabajo sembrar. Otros invitaron a toda esta gente a venir, y ustedes se han beneficiado del trabajo de ellos.»
39 Mucha gente que vivía en ese pueblo de Samaria creyó en Jesús, porque la mujer les había dicho: «Él sabe todo lo que he hecho en la vida.» 40 Por eso, cuando la gente del pueblo llegó a donde estaba Jesús, le rogó que se quedara con ellos. Él se quedó allí dos días, 41 y muchas otras personas creyeron al oír lo que él decía. 42 La gente le dijo a la mujer: «Ahora creemos, no por lo que tú nos dijiste, sino porque nosotros mismos lo hemos oído; y sabemos que en verdad él es el Salvador del mundo.»
Jesús sana al hijo de un oficial
43-44 Algunos no trataban bien a Jesús cuando él les hablaba. Por eso Jesús dijo una vez: «A ningún profeta lo reciben bien en su propio pueblo.»
Después de estar dos días en aquel pueblo de Samaria, Jesús y sus discípulos salieron 45 hacia la región de Galilea. La gente de Galilea lo recibió muy bien, porque habían estado en la ciudad de Jerusalén para la fiesta de la Pascua, y habían visto todo lo que Jesús hizo en aquella ocasión.
46 Más tarde, Jesús regresó al pueblo de Caná, en Galilea, donde había convertido el agua en vino. En ese pueblo había un oficial importante del rey Herodes Antipas. Ese oficial tenía un hijo enfermo en el pueblo de Cafarnaúm. 47 Cuando el oficial supo que Jesús había viajado desde la región de Judea a Galilea, fue y le pidió que lo acompañara a su casa y sanara a su hijo, pues el muchacho estaba a punto de morir.
48 Jesús le contestó:
—Ustedes sólo creen en Dios si ven señales y milagros.
49 Pero el oficial insistió:
—Señor, venga usted pronto a mi casa, antes de que muera mi hijo.
50 Jesús le dijo:
—Regresa a tu casa. Tu hijo vive.
El hombre creyó lo que Jesús dijo, y se fue. 51 Mientras regresaba a su casa, sus criados salieron a su encuentro y le dijeron: «¡Su hijo vive!»
52 El oficial les preguntó a qué hora el muchacho había empezado a sentirse mejor, y ellos respondieron: «La fiebre se le quitó ayer a la una de la tarde.»
53 El padre del muchacho recordó que, a esa misma hora, Jesús le había dicho: «Regresa a tu casa. Tu hijo vive.» Por eso, el oficial del rey y toda su familia creyeron en Jesús.
54 Ésta fue la segunda señal que Jesús hizo en Galilea al volver de Judea.
Footnotes
- Juan 4:5 Jacob: también se llamó Israel. Sus hijos dieron origen a las doce tribus de la nación de Israel.
- Juan 4:9 Los de Samaria: Los samaritanos adoraban a Dios de forma diferente de como lo hacían los judíos, y no se llevaban bien con ellos.
- Juan 4:20 Este cerro: Se trata del monte Guerizim, que está cerca de la ciudad de Siquem.
John 4
New King James Version
A Samaritan Woman Meets Her Messiah
4 Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and (A)baptized more disciples than John 2 (though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples), 3 He left Judea and departed again to Galilee. 4 But He needed to go through Samaria.
5 So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that (B)Jacob (C)gave to his son Joseph. 6 Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” 8 For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
9 Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For (D)Jews have no dealings with (E)Samaritans.
10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the (F)gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you (G)living water.”
11 The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? 12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but (H)whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him (I)will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
15 (J)The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”
16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
17 The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.”
Jesus said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’ 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.”
19 The woman said to Him, “Sir, (K)I perceive that You are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on (L)this mountain, and you Jews say that in (M)Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”
21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming (N)when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22 You worship (O)what you do not know; we know what we worship, for (P)salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will (Q)worship the Father in (R)spirit (S)and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24 (T)God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
25 The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah (U)is coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, (V)He will tell us all things.”
26 Jesus said to her, (W)“I who speak to you am He.”
The Whitened Harvest
27 And at this point His disciples came, and they marveled that He talked with a woman; yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why are You talking with her?”
28 The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, 29 “Come, see a Man (X)who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?” 30 Then they went out of the city and came to Him.
31 In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
32 But He said to them, “I have food to eat of which you do not know.”
33 Therefore the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?”
34 Jesus said to them, (Y)“My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to (Z)finish His work. 35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes (AA)the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, (AB)for they are already white for harvest! 36 (AC)And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that (AD)both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. 37 For in this the saying is true: (AE)‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; (AF)others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”
The Savior of the World
39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him (AG)because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all that I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans had come to Him, they urged Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days. 41 And many more believed because of His own (AH)word.
42 Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of what you said, for (AI)we ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed [a]the Christ, the Savior of the world.”
Welcome at Galilee
43 Now after the two days He departed from there and went to Galilee. 44 For (AJ)Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. 45 So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, (AK)having seen all the things He did in Jerusalem at the feast; (AL)for they also had gone to the feast.
A Nobleman’s Son Healed
46 So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee (AM)where He had made the water wine. And there was a certain [b]nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. 47 When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and implored Him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 48 Then Jesus said to him, (AN)“Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe.”
49 The nobleman said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies!”
50 Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your son lives.” So the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. 51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him and told him, saying, “Your son lives!”
52 Then he inquired of them the hour when he got better. And they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” 53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” And he himself believed, and his whole household.
54 This again is the second sign Jesus did when He had come out of Judea into Galilee.
John 4
New International Version
Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman
4 Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John(A)— 2 although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. 3 So he left Judea(B) and went back once more to Galilee.
4 Now he had to go through Samaria.(C) 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.(D) 6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.
7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?”(E) 8 (His disciples had gone into the town(F) to buy food.)
9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan(G) woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.[a])
10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”(H)
11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well(I) and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst.(J) Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water(K) welling up to eternal life.”(L)
15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty(M) and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
16 He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”
17 “I have no husband,” she replied.
Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”
19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet.(N) 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain,(O) but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”(P)
21 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming(Q) when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.(R) 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know;(S) we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.(T) 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come(U) when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit(V) and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit,(W) and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
25 The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ)(X) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
26 Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”(Y)
The Disciples Rejoin Jesus
27 Just then his disciples returned(Z) and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”
28 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did.(AA) Could this be the Messiah?”(AB) 30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him.
31 Meanwhile his disciples urged him, “Rabbi,(AC) eat something.”
32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat(AD) that you know nothing about.”
33 Then his disciples said to each other, “Could someone have brought him food?”
34 “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will(AE) of him who sent me and to finish his work.(AF) 35 Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.(AG) 36 Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests(AH) a crop for eternal life,(AI) so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. 37 Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’(AJ) is true. 38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”
Many Samaritans Believe
39 Many of the Samaritans from that town(AK) believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.”(AL) 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. 41 And because of his words many more became believers.
42 They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”(AM)
Jesus Heals an Official’s Son
43 After the two days(AN) he left for Galilee. 44 (Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)(AO) 45 When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival,(AP) for they also had been there.
46 Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine.(AQ) And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. 47 When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea,(AR) he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death.
48 “Unless you people see signs and wonders,”(AS) Jesus told him, “you will never believe.”
49 The royal official said, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”
50 “Go,” Jesus replied, “your son will live.”
The man took Jesus at his word and departed. 51 While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living. 52 When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, “Yesterday, at one in the afternoon, the fever left him.”
53 Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” So he and his whole household(AT) believed.
54 This was the second sign(AU) Jesus performed after coming from Judea to Galilee.
Footnotes
- John 4:9 Or do not use dishes Samaritans have used
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